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R. A. TORREY 

Dean of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles 



Our Duty to God and Our Country 
in this Time of Crisis 



Copyright 1918 
By R. A. Torrey 



Peanut Patriotism and Pure Patriotism; 
Our Duty to God and Our Country 
in this Time of Crisis. 



"Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, 
curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because 
they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help 
of the LORD against the mighty." Judges 5 :23. 

Our subject this morning is "Peanut 
Patriotism and Pure Patriotism : Our Duty to God 
and our Country in this Time of Crisis." You will 
find the text in Judges 5 :23, "Curse ye Meroz, said 
the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the inhabi- 
tants thereof; because they came not to the help of 
the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the 
mighty." The speaker is the angel of Jehovah. It 
could be proven, if there were time to go into it, that 
the angel of Jehovah was the second person of the 
trinity before His incarnation in Jesus of Nazareth. 
So this declaration of a curse upon slackers is an 
utterance of Jesus Christ. The whole chapter from 
which our text is taken. Judges 5, is an inspired 
hymn. It is God's hymn. The sentiments of the 
hymn are God's sentiments, and it is Jehovah God 
who pronounces the curse of the text. God had 
called Israel to battle, to literal war, to bloody war 
against His enemies and theirs. Sisera was the 
Kaiser Wilhelm II of that day. Some had heard 
the call of God and rallied to His war. These had 
conquered the enemies of God and their enemies, 
and won a glorious victory. God had fought for 
them and with them. It was Jehovah who had 
"discomfited Sisera and all his chariots, and all his 
hosts, with the edge of the sword before Barak" 
(Judges 4:15). But in that time of God's war for 
liberty and righteousness, Meroz had shirked its 
duty. They had proven shirkers and slackers and 
brought the curse of the Almighty upon their heads. 
It is clear that there are times when God calls His 
people to war, when a war is God's war. If there 
was ever a time in the history of this country when 
our side in the war was God's side, and our war was 

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GocPs war, it is in this present war. It is to my 
mind far easier to justify the part of the United 
States in this war than to justify our part even in 
the War of the Revolution, or to justify the part of 
the North in the Civil War. Indeed, this present war 
' was forced upon us. We had to fight or else to 
leave our citizens and our women and children to be 
murdered by a government and a nation that knew 
no law, no truth, no honor, no regard for the most 
sacred rights of other nations, or even of women 
and children. Because I believe in justice, because 
I believe in the rights of the weak, both of individ- 
uals and nations, because I believe in veracity and in 
keeping of treaties and covenants, because I believe 
in the protection of the honor of women and girls, 
because I believe in everything that is high and holy 
and pure and true, I believe in this war, and in the 
destruction of the power of the Hohenzollerns and 
the punishment and humiliation of the people that 
support and follow William the Second in his vil- 
lainies and deviltries. And every man, woman and 
child in the land has a duty to our government and 
nation at this time, and those who fail to perform 
their whole duty at this time, who fail to come up 
to the help of the Lord against the mighty, will 
bring a curse upon their heads. 

There is a most cheering display of pure patriot- 
ism throughout our land. I have spoken, since the 
war began, throughout our land from Boston on the 
Atlantic to Los Angeles on the Pacific, and from 
Vermont on the north to Texas on the south, and I 
have seen everywhere an enthusiasm for our right- 
eous cause that has cheered my heart. But along with 
this pure patriotism I have also seen a cheap and 
tawdry patriotism, a peanut patriotism, a patriotism 
that in no sense deserves the name of patriotism, a 
patriotism that has cost nothing, but has often 
brought profit to the alleged patriot, a patriotism 
that has proved profitable in money or in applause 
to the alleged patriot, a patriotism for example, 
that has tried to fatten the purse of flag manufac- 
turers by fostering an over-use of our beautiful and 
glorious flag, and by uses of the flag that were not 



honoring, but dishonoring, using the flag, for exam- 
ple, as a mere decoration, or thrown over chairs to 
sit on, or placed on platforms to trample on, or even 
used as a handkerchief to blow your nose on or spit 
on, or that has sought to play to the galleries by 
attacking people who were falsely alleged not to 
properly display the flag, or not to display the flag 
sufiiciently, while the man who was courting applause 
by his lying attack upon others was making no per- 
sonal sacritices by going to the war himself nor by 
sending any one who was dear to him to the war, 
nor giving any considerable sum to Red Cross, or 
Y. M. C. A., or buying Liberty Bonds, or by any 
other of the thousand and one ways of sacrifice that 
have been open to the one who is not seeking ap- 
plause for himself, but holds what he has and is at 
his country's and his God's disposal. I believe in our 
flag; I believe from the bottom of my heart that it 
is the most beautiful national emblem that floats. 
I have taken my hat off to it as I have passed be- 
neath it on German soil. I have carried it, not only 
from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Labrador 
to Georgia over our continent, but in China, Japan, 
Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, India, Switzer- 
land, France, England, Scotland, Ireland, Holland, 
and Belgium, and even Germany, but I do not take 
any stock in that form of patriotism that exhausts 
itself in seeing how many flags it can tuck on to an 
automobile, or in putting out a service flag that has 
as many stars upon it as you have distant relatives 
that are mere camp hangers-on. I have seen a large 
and beautiful flag displayed in a home and many 
flags fluttering from automobiles where I had good 
reason to suspect that our glorious flag was simply 
used as a camouflage for lurking pro-Germanism and 
I have seen a service flag fluttering from a house 
with five stars upon it when there was only one man 
in the whole household old enough to enlist. 

What does real patriotism, pure patriotism demand 
of us at the present time? 

I. JOINING THE ARMY. 

First of all, pure patriotism demands that when 
we are drafted we should go to the war, unless there 

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is something else we can do that will be more for 
our nation's welfare, and for the honor of God, and 
for which, therefore, we may be properly exempted. 

1. Why do I say, when we are drafted? Because 
I believe that a selective draft is the only fair way 
of securing soldiers for the war. We cannot all go, 
some must stay at home to back those who do go. 
If we depend upon voluntary enlistment then only 
the best go and the worthless and comparatively 
worthless stay at home to enjoy the fruit of the 
sacrifices of the brave and true. A draft is the fair, 
and the only fair way of securing soldiers, and while 
our own draft law may not be perfect, it is certainly 
as good as could be expected. It is a remarkably 
good law. In fact, taken as a whole it is a thor- 
oughly wise law. 

2. There are sometimes other things that we can 
do than going to the war whereby we will help our 
country more than by going to the war. Hoover 
can do more at the present time by using his peculiar 
abilities and his unusual experience in conserving 
the food stuffs of the country than he could by tak- 
ing a gun and going out to the trenches. Many a 
man can do more by inspiring a hundred men to do 
their duty than he could by firing one rifle. Many 
a man can do more for God and country at this time 
by preaching the pure gospel than he could by 
shouldering a gun. Of course, there are many 
preachers who do no good either for their God or 
country, and would be of much more use in the 
trenches than in the pulpit. 

3. But seme one will ask, "Is it right for a Chris- 
tian to bear arms? Doesn't the Bible forbid it?" 
The Bible certainly does not forbid our bearing arms 
under all circumstances. Two of the most highly 
commended men in the Bible were soldiers. In the 
Gospel of Matthew, the eighth chapter and the tenth 
verse, our Lord Jesus gives one of the highest com- 
mendations that ever fell from His lips to a captain 
in the Roman army. He says in praise of his faith. 
"I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel." 
And our Lord did not suggest, even in the remotest 
way. that this man of towering faith should quit the 

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army. And in the tenth chapter and the eleventh 
chapter of the Acts of the Apostles we have a pic- 
ture of another captain in the Roman army, a man 
of such exceptional devotion and such exemplary 
conduct in the use of his money for God and the 
poor that God sent an angelic messenger to him to 
tell him that his prayers and his alms had gone up 
for a memorial before God. Our Lord Jesus did not 
tell the Roman centurion to quit the army, nor did 
the angel nor Peter tell Cornelius to quit the 
army. While Cornelius was still in the army the 
Holy Ghost came in a remarkable way upon Corne- 
lius and his whole household, in which numerous 
soldiers were included. It is very evident that a 
man may be a soldier and still be peculiarly favored 
and instructed of God and still remain a soldier. 
Some of the ripest and most intelligent Christians 
I have ever known have been in the army, some of 
them officers and some of them privates. 

II. CONTRIBUTING MONEY TO THE 
PROSECUTION OF THE WAR. 

The second thing that pure patriotism demands of 
us is that if we cannot ourselves go to the war for 
one reason or another, that we contribute of our 
money to the prosecution of the war and the com- 
fort of those who are bearing the heat and burden 
of the day. Just as Christians who cannot go to 
the foreign field themselves should contribute to the 
support of those who can, so also the patriot who 
cannot go to the war should contribute to the sup- 
port of those who can and do. Why should those 
who are drafted bear all the sacrifice? Does the 
drafted man owe anything to the country that we 
do not? There may be reasons why we should not 
go, but there are no reasons why we should not make 
sacrifices as well as he. There are many ways in 
which we can contribute to the prosecution of the 
war. 

1. First of all, by paying our taxes without any 
attempt to evade or diminish them, and paying them 
promptly. The man of means who seeks to evade 
or postpone the payment of his income tax is as 



truly a slacker, a traitor and a criminal as the man 
of twenty-five who seeks to dodge the draft by 
sneaking out of the country. 

2. Second, by buying Liberty Bonds and War Sav- 
ings Certificates and Thrift Stamps. I speak of 
that as a sacrifice, but in reality it is little or no 
sacrifice. Liberty Bonds and War Savings Certifi- 
cates and Thrift Stamps are a good investment, and 
those who buy them will ultimately gain by so doing. 
How well I remember years ago one of the leading 
men of wealth of New Haven, Conn., who laid the 
foundations of his fortune by buying United States 
Bonds in the time of the Civil War. He did it as a 
patriotic duty and it proved a remarkably good 
investment. Certainly we far better put our money 
into Liberty Bonds and War Savings Certificates 
and Thrift Stamps than squander it in all kinds of 
foolishness of dress, amusement and physical self- 
indulgence. 

3. In the third place, we can contribute money 
to the prosecution of the war by giving to the Red 
Cross, or the Y. M. C. A. I witnessed the work of 
the Y. M. C. A. during the Spanish-American War, 
and I have seen something of it during the present 
war at Camp Bowie and Camp Kearney. I have 
been told the Y. M. «C. A. are not doing the same 
kind of work in this war that they did in the Span- 
ish-American War, but my experience is they are 
doing even a better work, and not only a larger 
work but a more intelligent and more definite work, 
a work with better results. That there may be some 
things in connection with it that you and I would 
not believe in, I do not doubt for a moment, but no 
intelligent man expects perfection from any human 
organization, and no fair minded man refuses to 
cooperate with an organization because it does not 
do everything just as we want it done. 

HL HELPING TO CONSERVE FOOD FOR 
THE ARMY AND FOR OUR ALLIES. 

The third thing that pure patriotism demands of 
us is that we help to conserve food for the army and 
for our allies. Here and there some are grumbling 



because we are asked to go without meat one day 
in the week, or to go without wheat bread, or to 
economize on sugar and butter. So far we have 
been called upon to make no sacrifice that is any 
real sacrifice at all. We would all be better off phy- 
sically any way if we went without meat more than 
one day in the week. Rye bread is as wholesome and 
as toothsome as wheat bread. Most of us eat too 
much sugar any how and most of us too much but- 
ter. The time may come, and I suppose it will 
come, when the Food Administration will find it 
necessary to call upon us to make some real sacri- 
fices. It will be remarkable if such a time does not 
come. When it does come pure patriotism demands 
that we make these sacrifices without a murmur, yes, 
that we make them with glad hearts, glad that we 
can make some sacrifice for our country's sake and 
for God's sake. How I thank God that I was born 
on American soil and underneath the Stars and 
Stripes. I have lived in many other lands. I know 
something by experience of what a privilege it is to 
be born in America and to live in America, and shall 
I make no sacrifices for my country and for my 
God who in His wondrous grace gave me the privi- 
lege of being born in this land? 

We should also economize even where the Gov- 
ernment does not ask it. Why squander money, 
e. g., on candy and soft drinks, that do us no earthly 
good and often do us positive harm, especially when 
one of the great lacks of our allies is sugar. 

In this connection let me say we should obey 
without hesitation all the war laws and regulations. 
Some of them may not appear to us to be wise, pos- 
sibly they may not be wise, for we cannot expect 
perfect legislation on any subject from imperfect 
men, but even if we do not approve of the law it is 
our business to obey it. It is our Christian duty to 
obey it. God expressly commands us in His Word 
to "be subject to every ordinance of man for the 
Lord's sake : whether it be to the king, as supreme, 
or unto governors, as sent by Him for vengeance 
on evil doers and for praise to them that do well. 
For so is the will of God that by well doing (i. e,, 



well doing in being in subjection to men's laws'* ye 
should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men." 
(1 Peter 13:15). In these days of anarchy and 
I. W. Wism, and an unintelligent, unbalanced, and 
German inspired, even though well-meaning, pacif- 
ism, every Christian owes it to his God and to his 
country to study carefully the ordinances that our 
rulers make and observe them with the most scrupu- 
lous exactness, even though there is no danger of 
our being discovered if we should violate them. 

IV. TO PRAY. 

But there is something that we can do that will 
mean more toward the winning of the present war 
than our going into the trenches, or contributing our 
money for the promotion of the war, or our helping 
to conserve the food for the army and our allies, 
WE CAN PRAY. Prayer has won many battles and 
conquered many apparently unconquerable despots 
and nations. The United States at the time of the 
Revolution won more by the prayers of the Godly 
people than by the wisdom or the bravery of its 
Washingtons. So we too should pray. This is our 
first obligation to our country at the present time. 
I do not mean, of course, that we should pray and 
do nothing else, that we should pray and shirk our 
duty of shouldering a gun or contributing our money, 
or obeying the laws, or being willing to do whatever 
lies in our power in these respects. But our highest 
obligation is to pray. Furthermore, in order that 
we may pray effectively, in order that we may pray 
so that our prayers will count, in order that we may 
so pray that our prayers will bring things to pass, 
we must in our own lives meet the conditions of pre- 
vailing prayer. A good deal of praying has been 
done already that we might win the war, but little 
seems to have come of the praying. Why has not 
God answered the prayers of England? Why has 
not God answered the prayers of America more 
largely than He has? Because neither England nor 
Am erica has met the conditions of prevailing prayer. 
God told His people that He would answer their 
prayers in the hour of their defeat and bondage if 



they would repent of and confess their sins and get 
right with Him, and observe His will as revealed in 
His Word. He said in Deut. 30:1-3, "And it shall 
come to pass, when all these things are come upon 
thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set 
before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among 
all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath 
driven thee, and shalt return unto the LORD thy 
God, and shalt obey His voice according to all that 
I command thee this day, thou and thy children, 
with all thine heart, and with all thy soul; that then 
the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have 
compassion upon thee, and will return and gather 
thee from all the peoples, whither the LORD thy 
God hath scattered thee." England has not repented 
of its sins, America has not repented of its sins. 
Have we as individuals? Much prayer to God is 
simply making a convenience of God, asking God to 
be "mit uns" when we are ignoring God, when we 
are neglecting God's holy Word, rejecting God's 
holy Son, and using God's holy day for our own con- 
venience and pleasure. Pure patriotism demands 
that we repent of our sins, that we get right with 
God, that we accept the Lord Jesus as our Saviour, 
and surrender absolutely to Him as our Lord and 
Saviour and that we confess Him publicly as such 
before the world, and live to please Him day by day. 
When we are thus right with God, then we can pray 
and God will answer. The one who refuses in this 
time of crisis to get right with God in order that he 
may pray in power, is a traitor to his country. He 
is a v/orse slacker than the one who refuses to reg- 
ister for the draft, or to answer the draft when he 
is called. We can come up to the help of the Lord 
against the mighty more by prayer and by being fit 
to pray than in any other way. 

V. TO DO WHAT WE CAN TO FIT OUR 
EELLOW-COUNTRYMEN EOR WAR 
OR PEACE. 

The fifth thing that pure patriotism demands of 
us is that we do all that lies in our power to fit our 
fellow-countrymen for war or peace. We are suf- 

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fering today from a lack of preparedness. We must 
do what we can to see that our country is not again 
caught unprepared. But where we are most fatally 
unprepared is not in the physical unfitness of so 
many of our young men, nor in the lack of guns 
and other equipment, but in our moral unfitness. 
Nothing so fits a man for righteous war as a true 
Christian experience. An intelligent faith in Jesus 
Christ makes a soldier brave; it fits him to face the 
danger of death without the slightest fear, for he 
knows that there is nothing in death for him to fear, 
for to die means "to depart, and to be with Christ," 
"which is very far better." It is then a solemn duty 
that we owe to our country to do everything we can 
in our power to bring our young men to Christ, not 
only those who are going to war, but those who re- 
main at home, that they may be fitted to do their 
duty to their country in this hour of crisis. There 
has never been a time in the whole history of our 
land when real Christian men and women were so 
much needed as they are today. We owe it to our 
God and to our country at all times to do everything 
that lies in our power to bring others to an intelli- 
gent acceptance of Christ, but an unusually solemn 
responsibility rests upon us at this present time to 
do it. There is but one thing in all this world that 
produces true manhood and true womanhood, and 
that is an intelligent and whole-hearted acceptance 
of Jesus Christ. True manhood and true woman- 
hood are the great, crying need of the hour. True 
Christian men and true Christian women are more 
needed than great statesmen are needed, more 
needed than great generals are needed, more needed 
than large armies are needed, and it lies within the 
power of each one of us to do something, yes, to 
do much to foster true manhood and true woman- 
hood among the people of our land. There is an 
imperative cry that many of our young men go to 
the front. There is an imperative cry that we do 
what lies in our power to contribute to the thorough 
and effective prosecution of the war. There is an 
imperative cry that we do what we can by self- 
sacrifice to conserve the food supplies of the coun- 
try. There is a more imperative' cry that we pray 
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and that we be in such relations to God that we can 
pray with power, and there is an equally imperative 
cry that in every way in our power we do what we 
can to lead as many of our young people as we can 
to an intelligent acceptance of Jesus Christ as their 
Saviour, and a whole-hearted surrender to Him as 
their Lord and King. 

CONCLUSION. True patriotism is an essential 
part of true Christianity. Our Lord Jesus Christ 
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city of His land, "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that 
killest the prophets and stonest them that are sent 
unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy 
children together, even as a hen gathereth her 
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sent him to the Gentile nations. But even still he 
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that I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in 
my heart. For I could wish that I myself were 
anathema from Christ for my brethren's sake, my 
kinsman according to the flesh" (Rom. 9:1-3). We 
need today a patriotism like that of the Apostle 
Paul. We need today a patriotism like that of our 
Lord Jesus, a real patriotism, not a patriotism that 
parades itself, that seeks applause for itself, that 
plays to the galleries, but a patriotism that puts all 
that a man is and has at the disposal of his God and 
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